Markwadsworth

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• Embedded Rents

  Continuing my occasional series, from The Daily Mail: Retailer WH Smith has reported a two per cent sales increase in the first quarter of this year due to the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2017 DEBATE

• This is What I Expected to Happen... the Greatest U Turn of All Time...

  From the BBC: Enthusiastic Remainers have been quick to jump on the election result as their latest opportunity to mould the UK's departure from the EU. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Bank Holidays & Conspiracy Theory Of The Week

  The results to last week-and-a-half's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What would you prefer (assuming you are an employee)? 20 days annual leave and 8 statutor... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2017 DEBATE

• Indian Bicycle Marketing* in Northern Ireland

  From the comments at Coppola Comment, h/t @johnb78: The reason for the polarisation was a cycle of one side aggravating the other and vice versa. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2017 DEBATE

• North Sea OIl - the Eternal Resilience of Capitalism.

  The Telegraph, 14 April 2015: Britain's oil industry faces a deep and long-lasting crisis, according to the International Monetary Fund, which said the... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail Inadvertently Hits the Nail on the Head.

  

  I hope everybody is enjoying the strength and stability of the UK government as much as I am LOLZ. Moving on to more important topics, the Daily Mail ran a... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail Election Day Special

  From The Daily Mail: * Peter Graham, 68, used both hands to twist Sara Wheeler's left arm during row * She had boasted about sleeping with another man in the... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2017 DEBATE

• Testing My Patience.

  Dinero left a comment on Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (415): The land under gardens has a lower land value than the land under houses as it does not have... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (415)

  The Daily Mail does a hatchet job, as expected. The 3% figure is plucked out of the air (they are talking about something the Labour Land Campaign group... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2017 DEBATE

• Outbreak of Common Sense...

  ... in The Labour Party. From The Guardian: Labour will aim to help tens of millions of people who are struggling on lower incomes by cutting the rate of VAT... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2017 DEBATE

• This is the Sort of Reaction I Expected...

  The Sunderland Echo covered a Press Assocation write-up about YPP. It was a bit of a hatchet job and the fox hunting bit was taken completely out of context, bu... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2017 DEBATE

• YPP (London) Meet-up Tomorrow Friday 2 June

  1. We'll be at The Brewmaster nr Leicester Square to celebrate Thomas' five minutes on The Daily Politics From 5.20 or so onwards - if you think you'll turn up... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2017 DEBATE

• Schrödinger's Prime Minister

  From The Metro: THERESA MAY said she was too busy ‘talking to voters’ to take part in last night’s TV leaders’ debate... adding that she wanted to talk to the... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Rhymes; Bank Holidays

  The results to last week-and-a-half's Fun Online Poll were as follows: The word "seam" rhymes with... (choose all that apply) "Beam" - 43 votes "Seem" - 29 vote... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2017 DEBATE

• LVT - Edging Towards the Mainstream

  A complimentary piece from Tim Worstall of the ASI appears on the CapX blog. But LVT is one of these generally good ideas that no one ever actually does. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (414)

  From The New Sratesman, it was published in 2010 but I've only just noticed this bit: Before he went to work in Nick Clegg's private office, Richard Reeves,... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2017 DEBATE

• Double- Double--etc Bluff

  From The Evening Standard: Some of the UK’s biggest music festivals are planning to let revellers test their illegal drugs before destroying them. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2017 DEBATE

• Fry Making Hay?

  Poor old Stephen Fry. How detached can one Blairite, Uber Luvy become? When asked to prepare a thesis of his own in celebration of Martin Luther’s: Ninety-five... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2017 DEBATE

• We Own Land! Give Us Money!

  From This Is Money: Landlords call for help as tenants can go almost a year without having to pay rent due to lengthy eviction process Tenants are able to live... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2017 DEBATE

• Resale Price Maintenance - Maybe DBC Was Right All Along.

  Spotted by Lola at the ASI, a fairly long article on a relatively minor but nonetheless interesting topic. My view is, manufacturers can (or should be able to)... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2017 DEBATE